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8 thoughts on ““Israel, Good Job!””

If you want to know Israel, watch Eretz Nehederet. Israelis love to watch this show every week. I wish this country had a show like Eretz Nehederet to poke fun at ourselves while telling painful truths.
This is not bashing. It’s thinking.

As you know, Brant, I’m less troubled by the marketing that surrounds the IDF rescue operation than you are. The operation itself is so desperately needed that everything else seems quite unimportant by comparison.

That said, this sketch makes me doubly proud. Proud of the rescue operation itself, and proud that Israeli culture produces this kind of biting, self-critical comedy.

Quite frankly, this sketch does more to make me feel connected with and invested in Israel than anything I’ve seen or read in months.

Thank you for that posting from one of my favorite poets. I’m very fatigued from being called unpatriotic if I question the actions of my country (because I love it and I want to do better) and being called a member of the “self-hating Jewish left” because I question troubling actions of other fellow human beings, regardless of whether I share religious and communal ties with them. I prefer to try to be a person of conscience who tries to speak out even when it is inconvenient. I don’t alway succeed in living up to what I hope are my highest values, but I would be honored to have half the gumption of Howard Zinn to challenge conventional thinking. May his memory be a blessing.